So, I’m sitting at work waiting for it to be time to go home. I figured I might as well write something here. I wish I had wedding pictures or really any pictures to post. However, I have not received any pictures of the wedding and I haven’t uploaded any new pictures from my camera. How useless am I? 
So anyways, Bri and I are doing well. We have almost totally moved into our tiny basement apartment. We’re still trying to figure out where some things can go, like our Dr. Pepper supply for working all-nighters. :) I need to take some pictures of the apartment. Maybe I’ll get to that sometime this weekend. Maybe..
Bri has started BYU’s accounting program. It is consistently top 5 in the nation. There’s over 90% placement within 3 months of graduation. Awesome. But, in order for the students to be that great after graduation, they absolutely kill them in school. Bri’s general weekday (and sometimes Saturday) schedule is as follows: in the library between 8-8:30 am; studying till I make him eat lunch with me at 11:30-12; Class from 12:30-3:15; three days a week he has class again from 4 till 5 or 5:30; sometimes library again till 7 or so; then he eats dinner with me and spends till 10 reading in our apartment for class the next day. Sounds like fun doesn’t it? :) Bri enjoys most of his classes, but not really the work load. He’ll be happy when this year is over.
My school year has been easing in. I don’t have class all the time it’s scheduled until end of September. Once things are in full gear, I’ll probably be almost as busy as Bri, but hopefully we’ll still get to see each other occasionally. I’m also working 24 hours a week at the hospital. One 12-hour all-night and two 6-hour evening shifts. It’s not too bad. Bri work’s 12 hours at the MTC. One 8-hour all-night and one 4-hour evening shift. Most of the time our shifts overlap so it’s not bad.
I’ll work on getting some pictures. Hope this wasn’t too long and tedious. I also hope it makes sense. I blame all mistakes on the fact that it is 5:42 am.
Here are some other pictures!
Bri, me, and Mom taste testing Magelby’s. Yummy! They’re going to cater the Provo reception.
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After some pestering of my Dad, and then pestering of wordpress technical people by my Dad, I can post pictures again! So here’s the two pictures of what I want my cake to kind of look like. I love the flower colors in the second picture, the messy frosting of both, and I might do ribbons like the first one. I also like the way the flowers look more random in the second picture.
Cake 1
Cake 2
I really should be better at blogging. :) So I’m going to attempt to write updates about wedding plans. So much has been done! It’s exciting. But there is lots to go as well.
Bri proposed on April 22. I was expecting a proposal, but not that soon. So, he did well at the suprise factor. Read the rest of this entry »
So, it’s been ages since I blogged. I apologize. I’m going to blame it on my crazy busy life. I am going to school full-time and working part-time. And I’m dating someone. That leaves me.. no time. Not even time to sleep well. I average 5-6 hours a night. Not too bad.
Nursing school is a lot of fun, but very time-consuming. The other day we learned how to give shots. It was way fun! We’re going to practice again on Tuesday. My instructor told me I have a good stabbing motion. I’m not sure if that should make Brian nervous or not. :) We’re doing clinicals in a nursing home this semester. This means we spend 5 hours each week in a nursing home being some combination between a nurse aid (CNA) and the actual nurse. We don’t know enough to really act a nurse yet. We each have one patient to take care of.
Along with clincial we have 4 lecture courses: Gerontology, Fundamentals (the shots class), Community nursing, and Nursing writing/research. Writing/research definitely wins as my least favorite class. It is intensely time-consuming and very confusing. I’d rather be getting my hands dirty than sitting at a computer researching anemia. I’m also taking 2 religion classes (Intro to Islam and the Revelation of John), a PE class (intro to outdoor recreation), and a filler class (intro to Clinical Laboratory Science). The religion classes are very interesting. The teacher for Revelation is my religion professor from Jerusalem, Richard Draper, so I love that class. Islam is also very enlightening. The PE class is one of the best classes ever. Almost every week we are out doing an activity: rock climbing, cross-country skiing, kayaking, geocaching, etc. It’s a great break from my other classes. The lab tests we run in CLS are fun but the teacher gives long, boring lectures before we get to the labs.
I’m also working 18.. ish hours a week at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center. Recently it’s been so busy I’ve worked an extra hour on average each week. I work Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 6pm to midnight (or 12:30 depending on how busy it is). I love my job. I really enjoy the interaction with the patients and the nurses.
Brian is still doing well. He’s working hard this semester so he can apply for the Accounting program this summer. We tend to see each other during breaks between classes for lunch and dinner. We are both very busy. He’s so good at being sure we have time to still do some things together. He’s always so sweet to me.
Well that’s my life at the current moment. Any questions.
I love this picture. It was taken by my cousin Brent’s 5-year old daughter, Emma.
So my laptop computer has been having issues recently. It decided that it would only turn on when it felt like it. And then it decided to forget how to use wireless internet connections. And then it decided to stop responding at all. That was in the middle of last week. Obnoxiously right in the middle of semester. My Dad worked with it and took it to repair people. We discovered that the motherboard had died. Luckily the hard-drive was fine. So on Saturday while I was working, my amazing parents went computer shopping and bought me a new computer. My Dad picked it up today and now I’m enjoying getting it all set up. It’s hard when I only have the basics on my computer at the moment. I was going to study for one of my classes while my parents finish working today, but I don’t have powerpoint on my computer. So, I guess I’ll just blog instead…
Anyways, so now I have a shiny new computer with almost nothing on it. As soon as I can get my stuff off the old hard drive, I promise I’ll post pictures. I’m hoping that it won’t have to be too long from now.
To answer the questions, we started going on dates in September, but started officially dating just over a week ago. Does that make sense?
